Data shows that after natural disasters, people with disabilities experience worse outcomes. Leaders in disaster response and operations spoke to NCR about actions and initiatives that could help.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided Sept. 14 with President Donald Trump's plan to end a particular immigration protection status that would have allowed people from six countries that have suffered disasters to remain in the United States.
From the historic heat wave and wildfires in the West, to the massive derecho that tore through the middle of the nation, to the record-breaking pace of this year's hurricane season, the unprecedented and concurrent extreme conditions resemble the chaotic climate future scientists have been warning us about for decades — only it's happening right now.
Catholic churches, schools and other properties were spared serious damage by a mid-season tropical storm that raced up the East Coast in early August.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Climate change and faith; climate change and insurance; Cardinal Viganò, Trump's new penpal; the "Defund the police" slogan; Lebron James speaks out.
Year in review: Hurricane, fire, flood and even earthquake, Catholic Charities agencies did their best to help thousands of their fellow residents through some of the worst natural disasters they had ever encountered.
The Field Hospital: Hurricane Michael's Oct. 10 landfall brought near Category-5 strength winds when it came ashore at Mexico Beach, near Panama City on the Florida Gulf Coast. Two weeks after the storm came ashore, Michael's death toll has risen to 29 in Florida alone.
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops requested Oct. 2 that U.S. dioceses take up an emergency collection to help those devastated by Hurricane Florence and other natural disasters.
The social action arm of the Philippine Catholic Church has convened its "surge team" as super Typhoon Mangkhut threatened the country in mid-September.
